Christopher Mellon

Earlier this month, the Defense Department released a long-awaited report designed to address renewed public interest in unidentified flying objects. UFOs—or, UAP, as they’ve recently been rebranded—have been back in the news a lot lately, thanks largely to a few true believers who think the government has been hiding evidence of extraterrestrials.How Important Was it for Jason Reitman to be a Part of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?The most influential of those true believers is a former high-ranking intelligence official,…

A still from the new documentary Accidental Truth: The UFO Revelations.Image: 1091 PicturesA lot was happening in 2020 so there’s a chance you may have missed something—like the fact the New York Times published a story basically saying aliens are real. The claim was based on a document stating that the government has found unexplained objects that were “not made on this earth.” You read that right. So yeah, that happened. And it’s a huge part of an upcoming documentary from director Ron James called Accidental Truth: The…

Two years ago, io9 premiered the trailer for The Phenomenon, a UFO documentary built around the “unavoidable fact” that aliens are real. Now filmmaker James Fox is back with a follow-up that explores that anti-skeptical thesis through a more international lens, delving into “the Roswell of Brazil.” It’s called Moment of Contact, and io9 is once again excited to premiere the trailer.Moment of Contact Here’s the official description of the doc: “Moment of Contact, director James Gray’s follow-up to the 2020 hit, The…